What is Digg?110 Comments
- on9star, on 10/10/2007, -1/+42I see no children in the making of this football.... dugg
- matchboxlord, on 10/12/2007, -13/+37"Those are soccer balls... not footballs."
Rest of the world call it football, I can confirm because I watched World Cup.
No one expect you Americans to change the name, but at least don't be so ignorant. - blitzer, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19Is this Adidas' way of explaining why a ball costs $200...?
- merdiesel, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19"you Americans"
I bet you said that with your nose up in the air. - richardiscool, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16It's not digg.us you retard. .com is a generic TLD.
- mydigglogin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13That's because this particular ball is not a cheapie, and it actually follows a fairly complicated process. It's about $80 retail (it's the Roteiro Grand Stade). Note that the outter panels are not sown - the ball travels faster and doesn't absorb moisture as much.
- hzrds, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Hey cliquee... Congrats on hitting the front page, but it's really annoying to see the poster trolling and commenting on their own post.
- dirkytheDIGGler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11AND Canada
- merdiesel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Touché.
- benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -20/+30until digg.com is digg.eu , digg.co.uk , digg.fr , digg.de etc it will be called soccer.
- cliquee, on 10/10/2007, -4/+14Ok.. See I posted that in soccer...
- Kumaku, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10KABOOM! - Goes the server.
- Castor385, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I bet most of the .com domains are not US related.
- MewTwo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7what do people who are not american call footballs then? I mean those brown uh... not footballs. The ball used in the superbowl. Do yall just call them 'american footballs'?
- FortyCaliber, on 10/10/2007, -6/+13How is he being ignorant?
If they showed pictures of that and said "How Adidas make Soccer Ball... you'd say "Those are Footballs, not Soccer Balls."
We'd say, "No one expect you -whatever you are- to change the name, but at least don't be ignorant."
Also,
Perhaps he doesn't know what they call it in the rest of the world. Maybe he's not as worldly as you. But he knows something about you now. He knows you're a self-centered ass-troll. - Tunguska, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7But its still rather cheap.
Thanks, child labour! - fudgeigor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Maybe children with man-hands?
/distasteful - xquizit, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7after seeing that, i'm never kicking my football again
- ItchyRichy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6http://duggmirror.com/soccer/See_how_adidas_makes_ ...
- raeanin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Yea, they are a lot closer to rugby balls than footballs. I dont understand what idiot first decided to call american football "football" when it only involves the feet 5% of the time.
- merdiesel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5So thats how this works...
- Gnasche, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5You're thinking of Nike in Pakistan and Cambodia.
http://www.american.edu/TED/nike.htm
"They're turning kids into slaves just to make cheaper sneakers
But what's the real cost when the sneakers don't seem that much cheaper.
Why we still paying so much for sneakers when you got 'em made by little slave kids.
What are your overheads?"
- Flight of the Conchords - tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5... .
- 22justin, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6i did actually :)
- JustinTense, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Unfortunatly you can add Australia to that equation. Thankfully this is changing.
- schmik07, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Fédération Internationale de Football Association - FOOTBALL
CONCACAF - Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football in North America and Central America - FOOTBALL
It's FOOTBALL. It's a ball you kick...with your foot...foot...ball...FOOTBALL - pukiman, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6Or crazy Americans for naming the football section on the site, as the "soccer" section?
- AdHaR, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Thanks Captain Obvious...
- statc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I really wish wordpress would come standard with wp-cache so half of the top stories would actually work.
- AdHaR, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It's named football for a reason...you get penalised for using the hands. DO you get penalised for the same in *American Football*?
- pomegranat3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3That number...
...it's everywhere... - mtmind, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Ahhhhhhh the beautiful game.
- pukiman, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5But those are footballs and not soccer balls! Just because the Americans stole rugby from the Brits, it doesn't give them the right to rename it after a sport thats been played for thousands of years with legs, and not using the hands. If anything, they should of name it "American hand ball" and not "American football".
- Griffology, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I see a soccer ball too. :) j/k I think like the French, we had to rename something to piss off everyone else too
- stephengotlost, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2More TLC than I thought
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2In Australia, the game is called both football and soccer. Australia has four football codes: rugby league and union, Aussie rules, and European football or soccer. The cost in the manufacturing process is not the materials used but the infrastructure. Factory, warehousing, sales, marketing, machinery. Factory labour is calculated at 3 times the loaded hourly wage. That is your wage before taxes, insurances, holiday pay, superannuation, government charges on labour. You will find that the actual factory cost is about 10 to 17% of the retail sale cost. All corporations run on the same costing structure; something they do not teach at business schools.
- ulmanor, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Dugg for proper use of the term "football".
- richardiscool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just because you've chosen not to use your ccTLD, it doesn't mean .com is yours.
- rzr42, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Probably an American...
- americamatrix, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Thats not a football.
- Aces08, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1there aren't any kids because it's adidas, not nike =P
- imandir, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_%28ball%29 has many different types of "footballs" so I am sure everyone clicking on the link was expecting something different.
- JPie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2The rest of the world except Canada, Australia(to a degree), everywhere that doesn't speak english. I don't expect you to visit all those places but at least dont' be so ignorant ;).
Also why not call it soccer when it's on the web? It removes ambiguity and makes it clear to everyone. - clink0914, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'm kind of surprised it actually works:
http://www.duggmirror.com/soccer/See_how_adidas_ma ... - tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Topic:
News » Sports » Soccer - Castor385, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2The article states otherwise.
- sb76117, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1http://duggmirror.com/soccer/See_how_adidas_makes_ ...
- Castor385, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Rugby Ball
- OsiVert, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I've noticed that soccer/football in America is trying to name things more on world views. For example, announcers used to say "he kicked the ball all the way across the field". Now they say "...across the pitch". They also are calling the players up front strikers instead of forwards, along with using nil instead of nothing. The European announcers are funny when they say footba...err soccer.
- canuq, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Mirror: http://mirror.canuq.com/3599703/tides.ws/2007/09/2 ...
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